[geeks] Sun is developing a new LINUX desktop!!

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:45:06PM -0600, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:
> One exception, though; GNOME should be an -optional- install.  I don't 
> want to be forced to install that bloated beast like I'm forced to 
> install Perl, Java, and so many others.  It's almost getting to the 
> point that Solaris is an unacceptable platform for simple services 
> (DNS, mail gateway, etc.) unless you really over-budget for disc space 
> to house all the extra crap that gets bundled with the OS.  It's not 
> horrible yet, but if it gets to the point that GNOME and OpenWindows 
> are implicitly intertwined, bloating the minimal X-capable install[3] 
> by 200MB or so, that's out of hand.

OpenWindows is *already* gone in Solaris 9:

mrbill at ohno:/usr/openwin/bin> ls *wm*
twm

I'd say Solaris 10 will be GNOME-only.

Bill

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bill bradford
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